LAURA DERN deserves a thread

sexy sexy

love her many faces of confusion and consternation
http://cityrag.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/24/inland_empire.jpg

http://www.nndb.com/people/658/000023589/BruceDern-sized.jpg + http://www.exxcell.com/image/company/Diane.jpg = http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/10/11/laura_dern_narrowweb__300x450,0.jpg

Her dad is rad too, of course

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-57760/autograph/scan/L_Dern.gifhttp://images.allmoviephoto.com/1990_Wild_at_Heart/1990_wild_at_heart_006.jpghttp://i28.tinypic.com/29b1vuu.jpg

kermit muppets make everything okay again. god bless jim henson.

she's kind of muppety herself.

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/1990_Wild_at_Heart/1990_wild_at_heart_006.jpg

Sometimes when two muppets love each other very much...

heh. oh dear.

I'm envisioning a very special re-make of Wild at Heart.

Let My Puppets Come!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/65175508_63e0832aa5_m.jpg

ok, this thread no longer worksafe.

My ex's father is a post-op transexual who looks A LOT like Laura Dern. It's totally a shame because any great Dern weirdness is replaced by a completely different and unwelcome weirdness whenever I see her movies now.

whats that film where shes a housemaid/nanny who ends up having an affair with the eldest son?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambling_Rose_%28film%29

Didn't know she earned a nomination for this.

the big red "notworksafe" warning makes this thread look exciting. don't know if the bare bum really merits it, but i'll take it.

bare muppet-adjacent bum. Hrm. But NSFW is not about hottness, I guess.

Run with it. SOMETIMES, WHEN THE STAKES ARE DOWN, AND WE'RE PUSHED TO THE LIMIT, WE JUST MAY FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF STUFF WE ARE MADE OUT OF. THIS IS THE STORY OF ONE YOUNG MAN, POSTING ON AN INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD, WHO GAVE HIS ALL WHEN PUSH CAME TO SHOVE. THE REST IS CINEMATIC HISTORY. IF YOU LIKE MUPPETS, THEN YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS THE MOST MOVING STORY OF THE DECADE.

as a friend pointed out, she looks like Stan Laurel when she cries.

wd love to see the Recount performance.

Can't stand her

wd love to see the Recount performance.

it's sort of cartoony, but so is katherine harris. she doesn't make harris seem calculating, exactly -- she doesn't quite understand enough of what's going on to be really calculating -- just totally self-absorbed and self-satisfied. there's a great moment where james baker first sees her on tv and says, with dismay, "who is that?"

saddest NOT WORKSAFE ever

WHERE IS NEKID LAURA?

Wow, people's workplaces must be really harsh if they can't take the occasional bare behind.

we have bare-butt fridays at my office once a month.

not mandatory or anything.

lolz -

Ok, boys, see what this little slice of pure Dern heaven does for ya:

http://www.hot.ee/ats139/dern01.jpg

What is with the reflection?

I totally didn't even realize this show existed until yesterday when I found out it was one of the only things HBO renewed. Anyone watch it? I just watched all 10 episodes of season 1. It's certainly uneven at the start (the first episode kind of sucks actually) but it improves with almost every episode; it's more like Nurse Jackie than anything else I could compare it to (as in, it's only slightly funny and a lot tragic). Mike White kind of steals every scene he is in.

(sorry, show in question being Enlightened)

Hey, I forgot I started this thread. But my thread title was otm.

Anyway I revived it because I watched the first 2 eps of Enlightened on an airplane flight the other day. Thought it was interesting, sort of promising, I'd like to see more. She's so good at playing unstable, and Mike White is a good match for her as a writer. Anyone else besides akm see any of it?

There's this one really tall blonde girl that lives in my building and I don't know her name so I just refer to her as "Laura Dern"

we don't have a thread for 'enlightened' which is a shame because it is actually a good tv show

although kind of: who needs good editing or photography if you can have laura dern acting the fuck out of every frame!! which i do sort of actually agree with, actually. (television!)

struck me that her character on enlightened is not terribly far from

http://www.hulu.com/watch/435933

Laura Dern was SO GREAT as Katherine Harris in Recount!!

enlightened is not bad!

LD Day in NY on the 14th

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/laura-dern/#films

she's in Star Wars

celebrated in wool

https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/noah-baumbach-greta-gerwig-laura-dern-gotham-awards.html

2008 ilx, you hate to see it

As good as she is in A Marriage Story, I did think her character was more or less the same character she plays in Big Little Lies.

america's greatest actor imo

a plus for those of us who don't watch TV series, then xp

winner of NYFCC supporting actress for Baumbach and Gerwig films

I do think that might possibly be the case, sparkle motion.

If you throw in Certain Women--where her performance was very different from the two characters under discussion--she's one of them, for sure. (I'll leave Twin Peaks out of it...she was fine, I guess.)

greatest living movie actor

― difficult listening hour, Saturday, June 9, 2018 8:04 AM bookmarkflaglink

otm

none of these statements are wrong.

thought she was good as one of Lynch's purposely artificial actors in Twin Peaks: The Return

her performances in Enlightened and Big Little Lies are memorable too

goddamn what do Lynch cultists have against Inland Empire? Arguably her most brilliant performance.

watched recount cuz of this thread

https://i.imgur.com/BpT9zJL.jpg

um sorry for enormous. she deserves resolution tho

goddamn what do Lynch cultists have against Inland Empire?

lol this is some pretty wishful challoping around here i think! my fave lynch still.

you are a wise man but phaps not in the majority

I loved her in Inland Empire

Better than the film.

look in the other room

IE is in his top 3

Yup.

I own it, saw it again a couple years ago, rate it higher but still seemed like attenuation. I came around on a couple of his others though, so.

kinda shitty that this thread was made NSFW for no good reason 11 years ago

(I mean obv the nsfw tag was for good reason, but there was no need to add *that* content)

thought she was good as one of Lynch's purposely artificial actors in Twin Peaks: The Return

― Dan S, Wednesday, December 4, 2019 8:01 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes but also the last episode

She’s magnificent in Inland Empire. People think otherwise?

I have no idea what the consensus is on Inland Empire but it's easily in my top 5 of the 21st Century, and a sizable % of my love/awe is due to Dern's performance.

Also Enlightened is very likely my favorite show of the century thus far for similar reasons.

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/04/13/11/david-lynch-cow.jpg

Even though Payne only wound up making one film that I really like, I feel like I should probably give Citizen Ruth another shot, as I saw it before I started really taking note of Dern's magnificence.

Enlightened was super great. I feel like it doesn't get the credit it deserves.